Title says it all. I would like to keep all of my saved tons and backups on my external SD card but CWM doesn't see or give me an option to backup or flash from external. When I first rooted the option was there but after I installed CWM ROM manager and had it flash to the newest version 5.8.4.7 it stopped giving external card options. Anyone else have this issue?
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Yeah, same problem here. I had to flash the touch 5.8.4.5 touch recovery that is in the S3 forums. Only issue is the date is wrong when backing up.
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I might be facing the same issue. Here's another question. After updating to 5.8.4.7, did you loose access to seeing your externeral_sd while in your phone? I haven't been able to access it at all since doing the update. Going to try to touch recovery soon.
What happens when you try to mount it from the mount options menu?
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Doesn't see it in cwm for me. Whether I mount or unmount. I can see my external when using root explorer or an earlier version of cwm. I paid for the touch as well and it still doesn't see it.
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After rooting my Flyer via revolutionary, it has a custom version of CWM recovery on it. But this version won't allow me to flash anything from zip. I have attempted to update recovery via ROM Manager, but the flyer is not listed in the device list when I select. Is there any alternative clockwork mod recovery available at the moment? Google has only pointed me back to the same revolution version. I've also tried an older version but it will not flash after parsing the file.
Is any one else getting these problems?
Thanks
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What exactly do you mean it won't let you flash anything from zip? What happens?
Hey globatron...
I was hoping you would see this, when I put any thing on the flyer to flash, be it a battery mod, rom, theme etc, cwm does not 'see' it, it returns a zip file not found error. I've tried to ext-sd as well as internal memory, just no luck...
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ok, I was hoping it would be something like this. There are a few things to try before assuming that it's the recovery. If recovery runs running I personally doubt it's a recovery problem.
Ok, point #1 is that you were correct to think it might be ext_sd, it is, you can only use the external SD for flashing.
You need to make sure that it is formatted fat32, but I doubt that is an issue or it would not have mounted.
If you're transferring to the sdcard via mounting under windows, make sure you "safely remove" before attempting to flash or it might not flush to SD and you'll see no file, the same applies to doing a "umount" first in linux.
One way of being sure it's really there is to push with adb, but that is not necessary if you do the above. You should not use unmount usb storage in recovery for this purpose, you must unmount from the PC side first.
Hmmm, OK I've sent the data in many ways, as you have suggested,via adb push & including Bluetooth, but the thing is, not even all of the sdcard contents show up on the drive, should I try a different SD all together? What if I download directly on the flyer? This is boggling me, desires and gtabs are for more straight forward... lol
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Maybe try reformatting the sdcard, or as you said use another card. You you could try a direct download to the flyer also.
Could it be the folder structure? Will try a different card and report back, Captain!
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OK, did a full format on the card, didn't work
Wiped the partition and recreated it as fat32, loaded the zip files and she's all good, busy flashed zips as I type!
Who woulda thought huh...
Thanks for all your help Globatron!
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I highly recommend getting this utility for formatting Sd cards. It's much better than the Windows or Mac built-in format and can fix things when they are really messed up.
SD Formatter 3.1 for SD/SDHC/SDXC
https://www.sdcard.org/downloads/formatter_3/
is there any way to change the default in cmw 5.0.2.7 that define sdcard as external sdcrd?
I'm not sure if it is possible, but I'm curious why you would want that.
because sd card is defined to be the external card, when i tray to mount from usb without external card in the phone, it prints some error and i can't mount from usb.
Ahhhhh. Very good reason. I had this issue too. With some versions of ClockWorkMod I had this issue and with some I didn't. I'll tell you if I have this problem with my current version tomorrow.
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WTF, I have the same problem as you know. Don't know which "update" caused this, but I cannot use the internal storage directly from cwm anymore. Would have to use adb, but that's rather uncomfortable.
I hope this gets fixed or that somebody knows a workarround.
switch to speed mod kernel if you can (its doesn’t support miui and cm).
it "fix" temporarily my problem (its have cmw 5.0.2.3)
but i still trying to find a way to flash only cmw.
or to change the defaults of cmd 5.0.2.7.
I don't think I should flash another kernel. I had the best experiences with Siyah. It's annoying, but I have an external sdcard inside. It's not necessary for me, but would certainly be a really nice thing to see in future versions.
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Hi Guys,
I recently got a ATT S2 and the first thing I tried to do is root it. I followed this guide.
wiki.cyanogenmod.com/wiki/Samsung_Galaxy_S_II_%28AT%26T%29:_Full_Update_Guide
I successfully installed CWM, but I cannot flash a rom using my SD card. Whenever I click install from internal sd card, I get a mounting issue.
(e: Can't mount /emmc/)
I am using the INTERNAL Sd card mounting.
Also, I cannot connect to ODIN or SuperOneClick. FOr some reason I can only use Heimdall.exe to install the CWM.
I am totally out of energy guys. I am ready to give up and stick to stock.
BTW. my phone is not bricked, I can turn it on fine.
The sd card is also not broken; I have two of them that I tried, both the same issue.
You flash probably the cm kernel. If your phone works do a master reset or factory reset from settings menu that should bring you back to stock. If not maybe this will help
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1301682 is a bit old but should get you the proper kernel instale
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I already know that I flashed the CWM. I want to know why I can't recognize my SD card so i can change a rom.
Choose Install from SD. Not from internal sd.
The mount points are off. Samsung mounts the external inside of /sdcard instead of at the root of the filesystem. The how-tos here were infinitely more helpful to me than cyanogen's, but that was months ago.
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Hi
I am rooted and CWM always aborts when doing a NAND backup because it can't find android secure !
I know it should skip it but it does not.
Anyone know what I should do to fix this in cwm ?
Should I flash a different version of CWM ? If so can anyone recommend one that will work ?
Trev186 said:
Hi
I am rooted and CWM always aborts when doing a NAND backup because it can't find android secure !
I know it should skip it but it does not.
Anyone know what I should do to fix this in cwm ?
Should I flash a different version of CWM ? If so can anyone recommend one that will work ?
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try the one in the qbking video...seemed to work better for me than the team epic one
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Naddict said:
try the one in the qbking video...seemed to work better for me than the team epic one
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Found the problem..
Had to delete the android secure folder on my phone...it was empty and causing trouble !
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Kind of running into a similar issue. When I try to do a back up in CWM, I'm getting that it can't mount backup path (but doesn't say what that path is, and I can't seem to mount sdcard in 'Mounts and Storage'). I'm going to assume this is like the SII where I need an actual ext SD card to run backups to? Can someone confirm? At work with no ext SD card.
Try reflashing ...
bigblue95z said:
Kind of running into a similar issue. When I try to do a back up in CWM, I'm getting that it can't mount backup path (but doesn't say what that path is, and I can't seem to mount sdcard in 'Mounts and Storage'). I'm going to assume this is like the SII where I need an actual ext SD card to run backups to? Can someone confirm? At work with no ext SD card.
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The latest version of CWM-Recovery should work well, on both internal and external storage. I've tested it on numerous occasions. I have the Rogers I747M, which is effectively identical to the AT&T unit.
Use this link for the correct/latest version of CWM:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1737446
Peter
bigblue95z said:
Kind of running into a similar issue. When I try to do a back up in CWM, I'm getting that it can't mount backup path (but doesn't say what that path is, and I can't seem to mount sdcard in 'Mounts and Storage'). I'm going to assume this is like the SII where I need an actual ext SD card to run backups to? Can someone confirm? At work with no ext SD card.
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If you don't have an external sdcard, then you need to choose "backup to internal sdcard".
I think I'm too inexperienced to be rom'ing on my everyday phone. I was running Team Objection lf5 and it was great except for google voice and MHL-out. So I decided to play with CM9. Now I cannot revert back to Objection? CWM recovery menu does not see ANYTHING on my external sd card. But when I pop the card into my laptop everything is still there, including all 3 of my CWM backup dates. What gives? I installed TWRP recovery to see if that was any different but it shows my backups as blank too. (Can TWRP even see/use CWM backup files anyways??).
So if the backups are there....how do you recommend I go about regaining access to them? Thank you in advance for saving my butt!
TWRP cannot use CWM backups and when u boot into CWM u should have an option to restore from internal memory or SD card, which is external. Try that
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nvmehaterz said:
TWRP cannot use CWM backups and when u boot into CWM u should have an option to restore from internal memory or SD card, which is external. Try that
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CWM gives me something like "directory not found" both when SD is mounted and unmounted.
Might be that CM9 is having terrible seeing the external. Put the backup on your internal.
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Might be that CM9 is having terrible seeing the external. Put the backup on your internal.
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This is true, it's only navigating the internal SD. BUT I can't mount the internal in CM9 to move the backups there. I'm stuck right?
No, flash a ROM, then move the backup on your phone, them restore the backup
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No, flash a ROM, then move the backup on your phone, them restore the backup
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Got it. I'm in CM9 right now. Got USB storage "working" in that it connects, but while copying my clockworkmod folder to the internal it will cause the phone to reboot each and every time. (4x so far). I'll keep trying but this was an absolute waste of a day.
External has been wonky on CM9, just flash another ROM, preferably tw based, so you can transfer the file, then restore your backup.
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Holy crap the whole problem was incompatibility between CWM and CWMtouch versions. Never would have guessed, but then again I know so little that I thought the backups they create would be compatible. Thanks everyone for your help.
CM7 was/is great on my Incredible, but it appears I am not ready for CM9 on the Note. (With the bugs in CM9 I cannot believe people are asking for CM10 already, yikes). Then again, the is on my everyday, daily driver including work phone so I need every little thing to work right.